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how to recover lost partition

Written by krishna shah on 2015-01-16 at 22h 03min.

I installed winusb to make bootable pendrive.winusb accidentally formatted my external hard drive.it of 500gb .there were alot of my files.there were two partition.
now everything is lost now it show single partition with windows bootable files.

HELP ME !!!!!
how can I restore my hard disk to pervious state????????

doesn't work for win8.1 iso :(

Written by anonnnnn on 2015-01-09 at 19h 17min.

[c]Installation failed !
Exit code: 256
Log:
Formating device...
BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
Mounting...
mount: /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
Copying...
Installing grub...
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a disk with multiple partition labels. This is not supported yet..
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
Error occured !
Syncing...
/usr/bin/winusb: line 78: 25622 Terminated while true; do
sleep 0.05; echo 'pulse';
done
Cleaning...
/usr/bin/winusb: line 78: 8590 Terminated while true; do
sleep 0.05; echo 'pulse';
done
Umounting and removing '/media/winusb_iso_1420825205_16636'...
Umounting and removing '/media/winusb_target_1420825205_16636'...
[/c]

broken links

Written by james on 2014-12-18 at 18h 24min.

All your download links are broken and your apt repository is gone. Also your captcha keeps trying to get me to add height + number + number.
What the hell is height.

WinUSB error installation failed ! Exit code: 256 Log:

Written by Dez on 2014-11-14 at 19h 10min.

Hi,

When I attempt to create a bootable USB I receive the following msg.

Installation failed !
Exit code: 256
Log:

Any idea why I get this? I am trying to create a bootable usb drive for
windows 10 preview. The USB drive is formatted as a NTFS partition and is
8GB in size.

regards

Dez

Using WinUSB with vfat

WinUSB by default assumes that you want the usb drive formatted ntfs. This is not compatible with many motherboards--they will not boot from an ntfs usb drive. To make an installer on a usb drive that is formatted vfat, try this:

1. mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
- find the correct device path for your system
- make sure the device is not mounted
- be aware that this step erases the disk
2. Tweak WinUSB to fix a case-sensitive path problem
- at the end of the script, delete the two lines that change the boot directory to lowercase
- note that the vfat filesystem does not have case-sensitive paths at all
3. sudo winusb --install <path-to-iso> <path-to-device>
- do not use the GUI, it will make ntfs without telling you
- do not use the "--format" option, it will also make ntfs